WordPress Dashboard Referrers
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Hi All,
I have occasionally found a referrer or two in the widget from
the WordPress dashboard, but it’s been pretty infrequent that
that’s happened.When it has happened, I’ve usually found a Google ad or two
planted somewhere on my blog.However, within the last few hours I have racked up 3 referrers
from the WordPress dashboard, and no Google ads.This seems unusual to me for the simple reason that it is un-
usual. I’m covering some highly controversial topics and start-
ing to wonder if I’m “coming under the lens” due to that factor,
or just what might be the reason for this sudden uptick in staff
visits. Or if in fact this is just something that routinely happens
to everyone.Another factor to consider is that I just turned over my first 30
days last night at midnight, and then here come the referrers.Or, who knows? Mainly I’m just curious as to what this might
typically mean, knowing there’s probably no easy answer.Anyone?
I am located here: http://thedirtylowdown.wordpress.com/
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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WordPress.com does run advertising on our blogs. See here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/
You want to you can purchase a No-ads upgrade to remove them. See here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/no-ads/3 referrers from the WordPress dashboard
And … ?
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Hey TT,
Yeah, I know. I don’t have a problem with that.
As a matter of fact, for whatever reason, they’ve
stopped putting any on there, for whatever rea-
son, at least temporarily.I think you missed the point entirely, which I
thought was pretty clear, but I’m not sure there
is an authoritative answer to this question avail-
able from anyone not doing the actual viewing.And you’re right: “And?”…
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The WordPress Dashboard is whenever someone is looking at their own Dashboard and clicks a link over to a post on your site. Dashboard referrers include traffic from the my comments, blog surfer, tag surfer, Top Blogs or Top Posts or Fastest Growing list, What’s Hot and Freshly Pressed, and any clicks from people’s dashboard comments section or clicks in on links to your posts from the global tag pages, etc. . Does that help?
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You’ve got to remember I’m new and still basically
clueless.When I get three visits from staff in the matter of a
few hours, after coasting on roughly the same num-
ber over the last 30 days, in the absence of any
Google ads and considering the topics I’ve been ex-
ploring the last few days, I’ve just gotta go’ “What’s
up?” — that’s all.I think anyone would be curious. And I don’t have a
clue why they do what they do, or if something’s
really just typical procedure or really what any of it’s
all about.But like I said, I realize it’s a difficult question, if not
pointless…Thanks!
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Oh! Okay. Yes it certainly does.
Whenever I’d gotten these before,
Google ads seemed to always
coincidently appear — or at least
it appeared that way to me. So I
just considered these were “staff”
visits from someone sitting at a
“master control board” somewhere,
ie: the “WordPress Dashboard”. -
Please read what I said above. The visits are not nessarilty from Staff at all. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wordpress-dashboard-referrers?replies=6#post-556769
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Anyway, disregard that previous reply.
By time I got done with that and posted
it up you’d already answered the question.Thanks!
You know your “stuff”, I will say that!
JD
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I know, I understand.
You’re just moving too fast for me,
you must be a New Yorker.I’m just a pokey old Southern Boy,
we never do anything fast, except
shoot and drive…; )
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I’m an OLD technologically challenged Southern Boy.
I’d just like to know what use that list of “referrers” on my dashboard is since there is absolutely no way to find out who they are. Click on it, and it goes some totally unrelated place (or nowhere at all). Google it. Nothing. Copy and paste. Nothing related. Why bother telling me that fifty people found my blog referred by someone I can’t tell who it is? -
Keep at it, you will eventually get the hang of it.
It’s a pretty deep well. There’s actually a lot to
proper website administration, and I have had to
learn it a bit and a piece at a time. One day for
this, another day for that… I still haven’t learned
it all, a lot of it is nerve-wracking (like this partic-
ular episode), and I have come to find out there
are not enough hours in the day to cover all the
things I could be–and probably should be– doing
with my site.But none of it pays anything, so … Mainly I just
post stuff up and it just sits there — no comments,
no nothing. Now that I’ve pretty much learned the
ropes, I’ve about lost total interest in it, sorry to
say. It’s started to look like a hole in the ground
that everything goes into and nothing comes out
of.I think that particular widget is a very useful tool,
though, all things considered…
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